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    Quote Originally Posted by alfat33 View Post
    Superb, how on earth did you find that?
    Some hard research on various historical military sites, Simon. Took over a week or so trawling through thousands of images.
    I have quite a few of men and women wearing this type of watch from the late 19th. and early 20th century, including a couple of author Jack London.


    Quote Originally Posted by Kaffe View Post
    Are these what they call Trench Watches or is there another term for them?
    Not trench watches, those are the ones with wire lugs from the early 20th. century, Kaffe.
    These are sometimes called wristlets.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TBKBABAB View Post
    Even though I posted the 1888 photo at the beginning of this thread don’t think it’s the earliest photo, below is from 1879




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    The above image has been reviewed by the National Army Museum, after David Boettcher asked for permission to use it. They said this;

    The NAM said "Battye was awarded three medals (one for Chitral posthumously). He appears to be wearing two ribbons in this photo. That indicates he was already awarded the IGS medal and the Afghanistan medal for the 2nd Anglo-Afghan War 1878-80 when this image was taken.* Another point is that Battye appears in the Army List for 1879 as Cavy but Inf in 1891. The Corps of Guides have both but he is Infantry in this photograph. The Guides Infantry were part of the First Brigade during the 1891 Black Mountain Expedition so this unit were there." Hope that answers your question.

    Other giveaway is that in the photo, Lt. Battye has his rank insignia on his epaulettes, and until 1880 the insignia would have been on the collar.

    This is the new entry in the NAM archive, where the original came from.







    So my image from 1888, and another of the Highland & Southerners from the same year featuring a similar watch, are still the oldest known photos, both found by me.
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    Stand corrected, was just a bit peeved that I posted the 1888 photo on this thread right at the beginning and zero comment.
    Maybe it’s me but seems to happen quite often, I post something to zero reaction someone else posts the same thing later
    to great acclaim. Think I’m just insecure

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    Quote Originally Posted by TBKBABAB View Post
    Stand corrected, was just a bit peeved that I posted the 1888 photo on this thread right at the beginning and zero comment.
    Maybe it’s me but seems to happen quite often, I post something to zero reaction someone else posts the same thing later
    to great acclaim. Think I’m just insecure
    Sorry I missed your post, I only looked at posts on the page I first posted on!

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    Quote Originally Posted by bobbee View Post
    Sorry I missed your post, I only looked at posts on the page I first posted on!
    Yeah I know that’s what happens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bobbee View Post
    Three officers wearing pocket watches in wrist holders, the earliest known photo of wrist watches, from 1888.








    Edit-I actually discovered this photo, back in 2014.
    I'm sure they would have been ladies fob watches in those leather wristlets. They look too large for a normal Gents size.
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    You could be right Neil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jwg663 View Post
    Fantastic photo!


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    Quote Originally Posted by bobbee View Post








    Edit-I actually discovered this photo, back in 2014.
    A little known fact is that these officers were en route to their local Rolex AD to place orders on a Daytona. I'm glad to announce that they picked their watches up last week.

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    Thanks to show "our" EDDY MERCKX from Belgium (with his chronograph ?)!

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    Quote Originally Posted by SimonK View Post
    Can anyone identify this watch? I tried usual suspects but nothing seems to match the lugs

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    Quote Originally Posted by therooster View Post
    Can anyone identify this watch? I tried usual suspects but nothing seems to match the lugs

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    Ignore - found it. Hermes Cape Cod Chrono.

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    Pics of watches worn well

    Poster in a service station Costa today.
    Not sure what it is supposed to project, but the single outstanding thing to me is the nonchalant super-loose, badly fitting end piece, ubiquitous diver type watch.
    Maybe an Orient, on closer look?

    Cool as fook when you don’t care about your watch, I reckon.




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    France's third astronaut (3eme spationaute) Michel Tognini ....



    .... wore his Yema Spationaute III Aragatz almost constantly between 1988 and 1992:



    Even in the official publicity photos for his own Antares Mission:




    He still wears it occasionally (photo from November 2018):

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